Isn't DOGE the one that was set up to send login details to foreign entities?
Posts by Anon
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FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools
Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage
Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam
Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit
HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals
De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now
Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
Monday 20th October 2025 19:06 GMT
It should take longer than that: the time to formulate a prompt for CoPilot to make up something which looks like it's relevant, and then the time to verify if it has generated something usable for serious stuff, like looking after other people's money. Of course, the first step could be omitted at great savings to the environment and our money.
Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area
Friday 27th June 2025 09:16 GMT
Roughly the same here.
The blurb under the percentages includes "the chance of being able to stream video, make a video call, or quickly download a webpage with images to your phone when you have coverage." Lol. What about the chance of being able to make a phone call or send/receive SMS?
Wi-Fi calling for me >95% of the time, especially if it's been raining or they've recently "improved" the service.
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish
AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside
To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk
Client tells techie: You're not leaving the country until this printer is working
Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI
I told Halle Berry where to go during a programming gig in LA
BOFH: The greatest victory is that which requires no battle
Father of SQL says yes to NoSQL
Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right
BOFH: Smells like Teams spirit
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more
Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints
Friday 26th January 2024 20:18 GMT
It works well enough if you're lucky.
If you wanted reliable, you'd have a failover from one supplier to a different supplier, using different ducts under different roads, no infrastructure in common, and you'd be in charge of all the backhoe rental companies in the area. With satellite comms as a backup.
Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable
Tuesday 11th July 2023 18:09 GMT
Re: Where do you live?
It'll need a new belt by now, and probably also the rubber suspension band that holds the motor will need to be replaced, if my Planar 3 from the 80s is anything to go by. New belts/bands are cheap. Careful of the screws: they are only plastic. Oh, and have a look at the capacitor too—they used those infamous RIFA ones. A safe replacement one is cheap from RS.
Ring system discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar leaves astronomers puzzled
UK Supreme Court snubs Assange anti-extradition bid
Deutsche Bank seeks options as sanctions threaten Russian dev unit
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs
Nothing to scoff at: Crisps and nuts biz KP Snacks smacked in ransomware hack attack
Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge
Tuesday 18th January 2022 18:07 GMT
Re: ... would each get $100 or so.
But if a village of people getting $100 pooled the money, they could buy tools to help till the land, seeds suitable for their environment that would produce plants that produced seeds for the next year, schooling materials for education - especially for girls, and so on. The lack of a shop in the next village does not preclude the purchase of items.
Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums
The Filth Filter is part of the chipset, honest. Goes between the TPM and SEP. No, really
BOFH: Time to put the Pretty Dumb F in PDF reader
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage
Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick
Happy birthday, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches
NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer
Kaspersky Password Manager's random password generator was about as random as your wall clock
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract
Openreach to UK businesses: Switch is about to hit the fan. Prepare for withdrawal of the copper-based phone network now or risk disruption
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks
Friday 4th June 2021 19:14 GMT
Is it really a new idea?
This was an obvious idea since hard disk drives were created. Why didn't the massive performance improvement of zero track-to-track delay (taking into account rotational latency) for larger files, and better performance anyway, from having two complete sets of heads ever become a thing? Or did it, and it never made it to user-level compoinents?
OVH reveals it's scrubbing servers – to get smoke residue off before rebooting
Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine
CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company systems encrypted
How do you save an ailing sales pitch? Just burn down the client's office with their own whiteboard
Monday 1st February 2021 12:42 GMT
Re: Switching
A 240/230/220/110 switch usually indicates that a large iron-core transformer is being used, and the switch changes which tap on the primary is used, or for 110 V puts two (to better handle the doubled current) primary windings in parallel.
Not all switched-mode power supplies have an active power factor correction (PFC) stage which can work with a large range of input voltages. The ones that don't have active PFC have a switch to change between the input capacitors being wired in parallel (for 110 V) or series (for 230 V); they will of course only be rated for 200 V or so as there's no point using larger and more expensive capacitors. 230 VAC rectified gives about 325 V. Electrons with an excitement level of 325 V are partying too hard to be contained by a 200 V-rated cap, and the magic smoke and sparks escape.
